Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely veers away from the subject of relationships ( ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ , |
| 2 | The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise . |
| 3 | And slowly goes on growing up . |
| 4 | They argue that major innovations in products , or production techniques , are bunched together every fifty years or so and , when they occur , they have pervasive effects , generating a long boom which eventually peters out and turns into a slump . |
| 5 | The Profitboss rarely turns down an invitation to speak at a conference , seizing the opportunity to present his company in the best light , to fine-tune his own professional skills . |
| 6 | That the latter seems to be chosen overwhelmingly testifies not to the existence of coercion , but to careful selection procedures for placing persons in corporate positions coupled with successful methods of persuading them that their interests and the corporation 's interests happily coincide — or at least , that that is the most sensible , pragmatic way of looking at it . |
| 7 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 8 | Social elitism , it is frequently asserted , effectively squeezes out working-class interests . |
| 9 | Bakker also argued that the brontosaur footprints found in the 1930s in the Cretaceous Texas limestone showed left and right footprints close to the trackway centreline , hinting that they walked upright . |
| 10 | Four plus three , as the number you add on goes down so the answer goes down . |
| 11 | Anticipating the detail of the National Curriculum and assessment arrangements is unlikely to be helpful , as Circular 5/89 revealingly points out . |
| 12 | Marie Brown is happy to stay with HRT to avoid vaginal dryness , a symptom that rarely goes away with time . |
| 13 | ‘ He has that Attila the Hun touch which rarely goes over big in diplomatic circles . ’ |
| 14 | Beyond this , character- ization rarely goes further than the creation of characters sufficient for the roles they play within the fabliau ; there is very rarely the slightest pretence at verisimilitude in the form of feigning that the characters have experiences beyond or after those of the narrative given . |
| 15 | She rarely goes out and has never been beyond the street she lives in on her own . |
| 16 | ‘ He very rarely goes out in the evenings . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose your father rarely goes out ? ’ |
| 18 | Mr Norrie rarely goes out because he seldom feels well . |
| 19 | It is assumed instead that , each time a logogen reaches its threshold , the value of that threshold is lowered ; and this value then slowly drifts up towards what it had been , but never quite reaches the previous level . |
| 20 | The saliva dries and hardens quickly and with repeated flights , the bird slowly builds up the line into a low wall . |
| 21 | ‘ Corps rather thinks not . |
| 22 | There is also evidence that TV , as a technology which works by electronic scanning , effectively shuts down the functioning of those parts of the brain that reason and think actively and logically — the skills that have been associated with the left hemisphere of the brain . |
| 23 | Let her play with a sponge and see how it fills with water , which slowly drains away once she lifts it up . |
| 24 | ‘ Nowhere have I been presented with so many extraordinary opportunities for startlingly fresh and original material for radio , ’ he says of Greenland , where he borrows a cassette and goes out recording ‘ wild track ’ ( a technical term that he expects us to know , meaning the sound background you hear when the broadcaster mercifully shuts up . ) |
| 25 | No adult insect can produce silk , so these ants bring young larvae to the site , holding them between their jaws and giving them little squeezes so that the larvae will produce their silk . |
| 26 | Machine , then turn right sides out . |
| 27 | But the famous scene of greedy eating in Tom Jones ( 1963 ) , in which Tom ( Albert Finney ) and Mrs Waters , aka Jenny Jones ( Joyce Redman ) — who may be his mother but luckily turns out not to be — rush through a huge meal in order to get to bed and ‘ devour ’ each other , actually replaces the sex scene which it appears to be prefacing . |
| 28 | It 's a cute wheeze that arguably owes more to Flann O'Brien ( the rebellion of the fictional characters in At Swim-Two-Birds ) than to James Joyce 's other literary heir . |
| 29 | [ Water heavily polluted with zinc paradoxically looks particularly clear . ] |
| 30 | The Canaletto presumably has not altered , and men still come to look at it just as they repeat Shakespeare 's words . |